iRacing RADIO CHANNELS - voice and text
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Information sourced from iRacing release notes
 

At bottom of this page
• Private Text  Messages guide.
• Voice and Chat via iRacing members page guide 2015s2 iRacing removed this option.
  2016s3 release notes noted "- All chat features have been removed." (relative to members page I believe).
  

NO SOUND?
• If you change "playback" device in the sim options, you need to exit the session and rejoin.
• Voice chat not working: Login to your account https://members.iracing.com/membersite/account/Home.do
  Check "Connection type" near bottom of account page isn't set to "dialup". No longer an issue per post (11/2015).
• Also see "sound hiccups" on Sim-errors page.
  

    Click on the driver's name while they are talking.
    Options I saw: Mute driver. PM driver (adds command to chat box). Eject spotter.
   

You can add your own radio channel per session.
Voice and text chat are on the same channel you set (@drivers by default).
In Options > Sound, assign keys to "Next Channel" "Previous Channel"
Use the assigned keys to cycle channels, eg mine are...



Change size of notifications: Options > Sound > Notification drop down
To keep radio name on screen, 'OPTIONS' > 'DRIVE', enable "display radio info".

Channel names:
• begin with the @ symbol, and can include letters,
• can be letters, digits, and the - symbol.
• are converted to all upper case thus not case sensitive.
• can be up to 15 characters.

RADIO CHANNEL COMMANDS.
Type command in the text box.

ADDING A CHANNEL:
@add <NAME>
Eg @add TEST
Adds the channel named @TEST and becomes your active channel.
Anyone that knows the name @TEST can join it.
Only people in @TEST can hear what you say or type.
You can hear @drivers while in @test
To talk to people on the main @drivers channel, you need to join @drivers.

OTHER COMMANDS:
@help :will list the commands.
@help command (eg @help list) :will show help for the command.

@remove <name>
Eg @remove @TEST  (or @remove TEST)
Will remove @TEST from your radio.
All custom channels are removed at any of session

@transmit <name>  
Will switch your transmitter to the channel. If you do not have permission to transmit on the channel,
the transmitter will not be changed.  
 
@mute <name> 
Will mute the channel. You will no longer see any text chat, or hear any voice chat sent on the channel.
Some channels can not be muted. 
 
@unmute <name> 
Cancels muting on the specified channel. 
 
@noscan 
Turns off scanning for any channels on your radio that you are allowed to mute. Some channels, like
@RACECONTROL, can not be muted, and will still be scanned. 
 
@scan 
Turns scanning back on. 
 
None of the changes made to your radio using the chat commands are "sticky". They are forgotten each
time you exit the simulation.   

@list 
Lists the set channels.
Each channel will be preceded by up to 4 letters.
Preceding letters tell you:
"s" means the channel is being scanned by your radio. 
"t" means you can transmit on this channel. 
"m" means you have muted this channel. 
"a" is your active channel for transmitting.

Pre-set channels.
@ADMIN - For server admins to talk among themselves only.
@RACECONTROL - Server admins to talk to everyone.
@DRIVERS - Equivalent to the "old" radio for everyone.
@SPECTATORS - Spectators can text and voice chat among themselves.
@CLUB - A separate channel specifically for each club.
@TEAM - A separate channel specifically for each team.
@PRIVATE - Each person that connects to the server will have their own private channel. You must scan
your own private channel. Private text chat messages are sent to you on your @PRIVATE channel.
Anyone can private text chat to you, and only server admins can voice chat to you. 

Server admins can always scan and talk on any channel, provided they know the channel name.

Your radio will come pre-configured with a particular set of channels, depending on how you registered
for the server, and your rights on the server: 
 
• If you are a driver in the session you will scan the @DRIVERS, @TEAM, @CLUB, @RACECONTROL, and
your own @PRIVATE channels. 
 
• If you are a spotter for a driver in the session, you will scan the @TEAM, @RACECONTROL, and your
own @PRIVATE channels. 
 
• If you are a spectator you will scan the @SPECTATORS, @RACECONTROL, and your own @PRIVATE
channels. 
 
• All server admins will scan the @ADMIN channel.

Since it would be difficult to understand what is being said if several people talk at the same time on
different channels, you will only hear one person speaking at a time. The radio channels have priorities.
Your radio will automatically silence someone speaking on one channel if someone starts speaking on a
higher-priority channel. For example, if you are hearing someone speak on @DRIVERS and one of your
teammates starts talking on your @TEAM channel, your teammate's message will take priority.
Channels are ordered as follows, from highest to lowest priority:

@ADMIN 
@RACECONTROL 
@PRIVATE 
@TEAM 
@<user created> 
@CLUB 
@DRIVERS 
@SPECTATORS 

     • Name represents the beginning portion of a name so bob matches on bob or bobby    
     • you can string together multiple names using '.' to replace spaces so b.brown could match 'bob brown'    
     • Names must be specified sufficiently to give a unique result.    
     • If two names conflict but one is an exact match than that name is used. This is so bob.brown and bobby.brown can be differentiated.    
     • The # symbol is optional to help make things faster.
 
R (type R or r) from either the driving screen or the session screen
 • the name of the last person to private message you will appear so you can respond
 • note for session screen: push ESC first to get cursor out of box before pushing r.

• My original Quick Reference PDF printout with a couple of updates.